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Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) gave a keynote address in 1990, at the school in which he graduated: Kenyon College. He talks about what it means to really, truly love something you do in life. He said that a “real job” is a job you hate because, well, you do it for reasons other […]

I feel inspired. It’s Monday but I feel enraged with passion, like my insides are about to burst. I don’t usually feel that way on Monday, or not on most days. Who knows how long this feeling will last, but right now I don’t care. I’m content. This is often triggered by reminiscing. I went […]

We just let it all out. And we said it almost simultaneously, like it was scripted in a movie or something. I’ve felt this way for months. Now I know, and I feel as if life is too short to not tell someone those words. Sometimes it scares people off, and sometimes the feeling is […]

The Agony of Defeat Macbeth’s “way of life is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf / And that which should accompany old age / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends / He must not look to have” (V. iii. 22-26). The quotation means that Macbeth has lost all feeling and compassion as a […]